Blog Archive

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    Lame Settlement on Alkali Lake Toxic Waste Dump Thwarted

    Almost a half century ago, a company that is now owned by Bayer Cropscience made and profited from the sale of toxic chemicals known as Agent Orange that were used in the Vietnam War.  The Department of Defense bought tens of millions of gallons of...

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    Do You Need To See It To Believe It?

    “It really touched me how [a blind lady shopping for produce] did not need to see something to believe it was there. It’s a lot like climate change actually, you can’t just deny all the evidence that climate change is there because we can’t see...

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    Nestlé Issue Transcends Environmental Movement

    This week Crag Law Center filed protests of two Water Resources Department decisions that start the approvals process for a Nestlé water bottling plant in the Columbia Gorge.  The decisions under protest are integral to a water rights exchange between the Oregon Department of Fish...

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    White Salmon River Valley Water Threatened

    The Crag Law Center represents the Friends of the White Salmon River, the Friends of the Columbia Gorge and Citizens for Common Sense on the White Salmon in a challenge to a proposal floated by Klickitat County to rezone over 1,000 acres of land in...

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    Trout Creek Update

    Earlier this month, the Bureau of Land Management issued a last minute closure of Trout Creek, one of Oregon’s most beloved rock climbing destinations.  The climbing community absolutely shares BLM’s interest in protecting habitat for golden eagles, but the lack of public involvement, environmental analysis...

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    Good News on Marine Reserves

    Our Ocean, a coalition of conservation groups in Oregon, including Crag clients Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition and Surfrider, has been working for years to set aside small areas of the State’s ocean waters for a network of marine reserves and protected areas.  Last week, legislation...

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    Trout Creek Closed to Climbing

    The Trout Creek climbing area in Central Oregon – one of Oregon’s truly unique and treasured recreational resources – was closed by the Bureau of Land Management on February 1, 2012.  Rock climbers from around the country have traveled to Central Oregon to experience the...

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    Coal Export in Oregon

    Yesterday, the Port of St. Helens approved agreements with two companies to export coal to Asia — potentially as much as 38 tons per year.  Other ports including Portland, Vancouver, Tacoma, and Kalama have all recently rejected similar bids to export coal from their facilities....

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    Debunking the Energy Independence Myth

    Happy New Year and welcome to an election year in which the truth is even harder than usual to find.  I wanted to start off the new year by debunking a tale that is commonly spun by the oil and gas industry. Whether it is...

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    Darkness, Light and Hope

    The Winter Solstice – the darkest day of the year – is my favorite holiday.  It offers the opportunity to reflect on the darkness of the past four seasons, to embrace that darkness and all it has taught us, and to let the darkness go...

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